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FOLK SHOW 11 NOVEMBER 2025

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56 minutes | Tuesday, 11 November 2025
JB plays the best in folk and roots - with plenty of great new music from NXNW, The Kasambwe Brothers and Trip - but space for some John Martyn and a Wagonwheel!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 4 November 2025
JB has a travelling man, some Bellowhead and Erin Harp Country Blues Duo amongst many other joys!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 28 October 2025
JB features the likes of Derry Farrell, Trip and Dylan in the basement in his selection of folk and roots from around the world
56 minutes | Tuesday, 21 October 2025
JB gives you the best in folk from the IOM and around the globe including the likes of Edwina Hayes, Tarren and Robert Plant and Saving Grace
57 minutes | Tuesday, 14 October 2025
JB starts Banjovial and finishes with Nitetracks as he plays the best in folk and roots from the Isle of Man and around the world . . !
56 minutes | Tuesday, 7 October 2025
JB hosts A.D.A.M . .Siger, Brighde Chaimbeul and some Peter Gabriel on the banjo!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 30 September 2025
JB pays tribute to that chameleon of the bass, the great Danny Thompson who died recently plus music from the likes of Jack McLean, Flook and Elephant Sessions
57 minutes | Tuesday, 23 September 2025
JB with the best in folk from the Bothy Band to Dan Walsh via the Cartographers!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Several Hares on a Mountain, Peggy Seeger, McTullagh Vannin and John Smith all in the mix introduced by John Barker
56 minutes | Tuesday, 9 September 2025
JB is back with his unique selection of all that's best in Folk and Roots from the IOM and around the globe
56 minutes | Tuesday, 2 September 2025
It may start with Led Zeppelin - but fear not it is the Folk Show with JB!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 26 August 2025
JB with his best selection of folk and roots music from the Island and around the globe including The Hunch, Odette Mitchell Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe with Daniel Quayle and five drunken landladies!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 19 August 2025
JB looks forward to this year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival with music from the likes of the Levellers, Dougie McLean and some bullocks
56 minutes | Tuesday, 12 August 2025
John is back with this weekly selectin of folk and roots music from the Isle of Man and around the world.
56 minutes | Tuesday, 5 August 2025
More great folk and roots sounds from JB as he gears up for another busy folk festival season!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 29 July 2025
JB with the best in folk and roots from the likes of Tamsin Elliott and Tarek Elazhary, Callum Stewart, Lankum and some sounds from Yn Chrunniaght
56 minutes | Tuesday, 22 July 2025
John brings you the very best in folk and roots music, including tracks from a number of artists performing at this year's Yn Chruinnaght.
56 minutes | Tuesday, 15 July 2025
In this week's programme, John brings you his usual mix of folk and roots music, including a look ahead to next week's Yn Chruinnaght Festival.
56 minutes | Tuesday, 8 July 2025
More great sounds of folk and roots from the IOM and around the world from the likes of Lady Maisery, Juan Tabor and Martin Simpson and Trip
56 minutes | Tuesday, 1 July 2025
JB spins some Lisa Knapp and Gerry Divers, has a broken pledge and two tracks about cuckoos!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 24 June 2025
JB returns with more great music from the likes of Bonny Light Horseman, Stiofan O'Treabhair and the Dubliners
57 minutes | Tuesday, 17 June 2025
JB looks forward to this year's Yn Chrunniaght Festival with guests Chloe Woolley and Jo Callister
56 minutes | Tuesday, 10 June 2025
JB spins some Capercaille, Lewis McLaughlin, Rachel Sermanni and songs for Nova Scotia. I feel love!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 3 June 2025
JB is back in the studio after his travels in northern climes and has music new and old from the likes of Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Trip, Gnoss and Brooks Williams
56 minutes | Tuesday, 27 May 2025
JB continues is back in his wild aviary with more music about birds with sounds from the likes of Pauline Scanlan, Fellow Pynins and Paddy O'Brien
56 minutes | Tuesday, 20 May 2025
JB has a song for May, some John Martyn, Imagined Village and left over birds!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 13 May 2025
JB brings you his customary wonderfully eclectic mix of all things folk from around the globe
57 minutes | Tuesday, 6 May 2025
JB is back with his selection of all the best in folk - and a lot of artists who have played here on the Isle of Man . . .with tracks from the likes of Jenn Butterworth, Kelly Joe Phelps, Silly Wizard and Gigspanner Big Band
57 minutes | Tuesday, 22 April 2025
JB spins the best in Folk and roots from the likes of Filkin's Drift, Neil Young and False Lights
56 minutes | Tuesday, 15 April 2025
JB spins the best in folk from the likes of Project Smok, Capercaille, Rachel Newton and the Big Wheel Blues Band!
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FOLK SHOW 11 NOVEMBER 2025
The Folk Show

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